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THE 
DIVINE    NATURE 


AN  ABBREVIATED  STATEMENT 
HEAVEN'S  FIRST  LAW 
THE  KNOWLEDGE  OF  GOD 
THE  ONLY  BEGOTTEN  SON 
MAN  AND  BODY 
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THE    DIVINE    NATURE 

[From   The  Christian  Science  Monitor.] 

AN  ABBREVIATED  STATEMENT  OF 
CHRISTIAN  SCIENCE  AND  THE 
PRACTICE  OP  CHRISTIAN  SCIENCE 
MIND-HEALING. 

EDWARD  A.  KIMBALIv. 
Written  for  Use  as  Part  of  a  Brief. 
Webster's  definition  of  science: 

(a)  Knowledge;  knowledge  of  principles  and  causes; 
ascertained  truth  or  facts. 

(b)  Accumulated  and  established  knowledge  systema- 
tized and  formulated  with  reference  to  the  discovery  of 
general  truths  or  the  operation  of  general  laws. 

Christ  Jesus  was  possessed  without  measure  of 
accurate,  definite  knowledge  concerning  funda- 
mental or  divine  Principle  and  law.  He  demon- 
strated the  eternal  verity  that  the  divine  law  and 
power  are  equal  to  the  cure  of  all  diseases.  Hence 
the  term  Christian  Science.  It  is  certain  that  if 
Jesus  did  his  work  lawfully  and  naturally  he  did 
it  scientifically.  If  it  could  be  shown  that  it  was 
lawless  or  in  contravention  of  law;  that  it  was 

363182 


4  tf:i  divine  nature 

in  defiance  of  divine  or  fundamental  naturalness, 
then  Christianity  would  go  down  in  ruins  and 
the  works  of  Christ  would  be  degraded  to  the 
plane  of  spasmodic  empiricism. 

All  the  things  that  have  actual  being  exist  at 
the  standpoint  of  effect  in  consequence  of  some 
substantial  cause  which  has  induced  their  exist- 
ence. Everything  in  the  universe  is  a  manifesta- 
tion of  some  basis,  origin,  source,  foundation, 
causation,  Principle.  Man  with  his  intelligence 
is  the  phenomenon  of  a  necessarily  intelligent 
cause  or  creative  animus.  This  primary  creative 
cause  is  an  infinite,  conscious,  intelligent  Being; 
the  only  law-maker ;  the  supreme  author  and  ruler 
of  the  universe.  This  Supreme  Being,  who  is 
infinite  good  and  who  hath  done  all  things  well, 
alone  may  be  called  Deity.  This  divinity  is  the 
only  God. 

Man  is  a  state  of  conscious  intelligence  or  be- 
ing. The  divine  plan  concerning  man  provides 
for  him  harmonious  and  satisfying  existence  and 
an  adequate  dominion  over  his  environment.  Man 
governed  wholly  by  God  would  be  sustained  in 
health  and  prosperity.  God  has  not  instituted  nor 
procured  disease  or  kindred  ills  for  the  discom- 
fiture of  man.  They  have  no  part  in  the  divine 
nature  or  economy.  Sickness  is  not  a  natural  nor 
God-ordained  concomitant  of  existence. 

The  human  race,  which  declares  itself  to  be 
a  fallen  race,  is  in  a  state  of  abnormity.    Its  fear, 


AN   ABBREVIATED    STATEMENT  5 

sin",  disease,  insanity,  depravity,  and  poverty  are 
all  illegitimate.  They  are  utterly  unlike  God,  and 
by  reason  of  them,  humanity  has  involved  itself 
in  prodigious  disorder. 

The  problem  of  evil  has  harassed  mankind  for 
ages.  Men  have  sought  for  a  solution  of  the 
problem  and  for  deliverance  from  the  embrace  of 
evil,  and  they  have  failed.  In  their  endeavor  they 
have  had  recourse  to  conjecture,  hypotheses,  phi- 
losophy and  materialistic  beliefs  and  to  every  form 
of  matter,  and  after  all  the  ages  of  materialistic 
theory  and  practice  it  is  palpable  that  materialism 
IS  not  delivering  the  race  from  its  plight.  It  is 
admitted  that  fifteen  or  twenty  million  people 
die  prematurely  every  year.  Having  failed  of  a 
solution  and  of  deliverance  through  recourse  to 
matter,  humanity  has  decided  that  sickness  is 
natural  and  inevitable,  and  has  resigned  itself  to 
the  tragic  sequence. 

Christian  Science  declares  that  the  problem  of 
disease  will  be  solved,  not  by  materialism,  but  by 
Mind ;  by  recourse  to  pure  supersensible  Science, 
and  it  declares  that  Mind  can  and  will  cope  with 
and  eliminate  disease.  The  crusade  of  Christian 
Science  against  disease  is  predicated  partly  on  the 
discovery  that  sickness,  as  a  negation,  has  no  legal 
or  divine  right  to  infest  or  consume  mankind ;  that 
its  conditions  are  abnormal;  and  that  it  has  no 
inherent  or  acquired  power  of  continuance.  Its 
manifestation  being  on  a  spurious  basis,  sickness 


6  THE  DIVINE  NATURE 

per  se  will  be  expelled  as  a  negation  because  of 
the  discovery  and  utility  of  the  power,  law,  and 
modus  that  are  equal  to  such  expulsion. 

The  coexistence  of  infinitely  good  causation 
and  power,  and  infinitely  bad  causation  and  power 
is  impossible.  Spirit  and  matter  cannot  both  be 
primarily  causative.  Such  a  dualism  is  scientific- 
ally inconceivable.  The  attempt  of  materialism 
to  locate  causation  in  matter  has  failed  to  solve 
the  riddle  of  the  centuries,  namely :  *'What  is  the 
primary  cause  or  essence  of  disease?"  Christian 
Science  declares  that  the  primary  causes  of  the 
bodily  impairment  of  the  race  are  to  be  discovered 
in  the  mental  realm  and  that  individual  and  racial 
fear  in  its  many  forms  has  been  the  chief  mis- 
chief-maker. It  claims  that  disease,  as  a  unit,  is 
the  effect  of  abnormal  causation  and  that  disease 
can  be  eliminated  for  the  simple  reason  that  the 
cause  thereof  can  be  abolished. 

Christ  Jesus  demonstrated  the  only  right  way 
in  which  to  heal  the  sick.  The  human  race,  which 
has  become  self -alienated  from  God  and  has  lost 
its  normal  equipoise,  can  only  be  extricated  from 
its  dire  peril  and  disaster  by  recourse  to  the 
supreme  power  and  law  of  the  universe;  the 
power  of  God;  the  power  of  the  divine  Mind, 
which  alone  is  equal  to  the  cure  of  all  diseases. 
Every  other  recourse  has  failed  and  will  fail. 

No  person  can  think  of  anything  more  impor- 
tant than  Principle,  law,  and  power.     Without 


AN   ABBREVIATED    STATEMENT  7 

them  there  would  be  no  existence;  man  himself 
would  be  an  impossibility.  If  they  could  be 
abolished,  the  universe  would  collapse  in  chaos; 
and  yet  neither  Principle,  law,  nor  power  can  be 
cognized  by  the  senses  of  a  mortal.  That 
which  is  equal  to  the  creation  and  activity  of  the 
universe,  including  man,  is  absolutely  invisible 
and  impalpable.  All  that  the  faculty  called  the 
intellect  of  a  human  being  can  cognize  is  the 
effect  of  power  and  law  in  concrete  form.  It  is 
only  as  a  man  strides  past  the  limitations  of  sheer 
materialism  that  he  gains  a  supersensible  grasp 
of  what  Principle,  law,  and  power  really  are. 

The  concrete  effects  of  Christian  Science 
practice  are  easily  described  by  stating  that  all 
the  forms  of  disorder  in  the  common  kinship  of 
disease,  insanity,  vice,  and  sin  have  been  expelled 
through  this  practice;  but  an  adequate  statement 
of  the  modus,  including  all  that  refers  to  cause 
and  effect,  and  to  prevention  and  cure,  obviously 
would  be  too  extensive  to  include  in  this  brief 
outline. 

There  is  an  indestructible  relationship  between 
the  phenomena  of  the  universe  and  the  noumenon 
which  caused  them  to  exist,  and  this  is  essential 
between  man  and  the  creator  of  man.  Instinc- 
tively the  human  race  has  sought  to  penetrate  the 
so-called  mystery  of  this  relationship ;  to  acquaint 
itself  with  God  "and  be  at  peace."  This  relation- 
ship between  divine  omniscience  and  man  who 


8  THE  DIVINE  NATURE 

was  created  and  should  be  in  the  likeness  of 
God  was  doubtless  referred  to  by  Jesus  who  said 
that  to  know  the  Father  and  the  son  is  "life 
eternal/'  All  genuine  Science  declares  for  such 
relationship  between  cause  and  effect. 

In  this  realm  of  spiritual  or  mental  relation- 
ship lie  all  the  phases  of  activity  called  revela- 
tion, inspiration,  spiritual  communion  and  the 
scientific  discovery  of  Principle  and  law.  It  is 
into  this  realm  that  men  seek  to  enter  by  means 
of  prayer  and  faith.  It  is  in  this  realm  of  fixed, 
invisible  law  and  power  and  the  utility  and  avail- 
ability thereof  that  Christian  Science  Mind-heal- 
ing is  operative  and  manifests  its  effectiveness 
through  its  supreme  power  over  disease. 

The  ordinary  human  conception  of  faith  and 
prayer  does  not  accurately  indicate  the  modus 
operandi  of  Christian  Science  healing.  The  dif- 
ferent mental  states  called  faith  may  be  sublime 
with  one  person  and  ridiculous  with  another. 
Alike  uncertain  is  that  which  is  designated  prayer. 
Nothing  is  more  true  than  that  most  men  pray 
amiss.  Much  that  is  called  prayer  is  utterly  irra- 
tional. The  curative  impulsion  in  Christian 
Science  includes  all  of  the  best  that  is  termed 
faith  and  prayer,  but  it  includes  vastly  more. 
Instead  of  being  the  prayer  of  petition,  it  is  the 
prayer  or  mental  modus  of  demonstration.  It  is 
both  prayer,  in  the  highest  sense,  and  answer  also. 
Instead  of  asking  God  to  interpose  and  to  heal 


AN   ABBREVIATED   STATEMENT  9 

the  sick  by  way  of  response  to  the  prayer,  the 
work  in  Christian  Science  is  in  recognition  of 
the  fact  that  all  by  way  of  divine  nature,  law, 
power,  action,  privilege,  availability,  and  oppor- 
tunity necessary  to  the  healing  of  the  sick  has 
ever  existed  wherever  the  sick  may  be  and  needs 
only  to  be  realized  and  appropriated  by  humanity. 
Christian  Science  declares  that  in  the  case  of 
sickness  we  may  have  recourse  to  the  divine  with 
absolute  avail ;  not  by  way  of  mystery  or  mirac- 
ulous defiance  of  natural  law,  but  by  and 
through  the  enforcement  of  law.  Christian 
Science  Mind-healing  rests  upon  infinite  Prin- 
ciple. All  its  postulates  can  be  vindicated  by 
faultless,  logical  argument.  The  rule  of  practice 
is  definite,  fixed,  complete,  and  scientific.  The 
process  of  healing,  as  applied  to  what  is  termed 
the  human  body,  is  both  reconstructive  and  elim- 
inative.  It  invokes  a  power  which,  although  in- 
visible, was  potent  enough  to  create  the  universe. 
It  overcomes  and  dispels  diseased  conditions  be- 
cause they  are  unlawful,  unrighteous  and  unneces- 
sary, and  it  is  in  compliance  with  the  teaching  and 
demonstrations  of  Christ  Jesus,  who  manifested 
divine  Principle  and  natural  law. 


[From  The  Christian  Science  Journal.] 

HEAVEN'S   FIRST   LAW. 

MABE:i,.S.  THOMSON.    - 

POPE'S  maxim,  "Order  is  Heaven's  first  law," 
has  become  so  familiar  as  to  be  almost  a 
platitude,  but  it  is  surprising  to  see  how  little 
its  absolute  truth  is  realized  in  the  affairs  of  in- 
dividuals or  of  nations,  and  it  would  be  interest- 
ing to  know  if  Pope  himself  recognized  how 
strictly  his  statement  is  in  keeping  with  Biblical 
teaching.  Can  there  be  anything  more  calculated 
to  bring  a  sense  of  perfect  order  to  the  human 
mind  than  the  wonder  of  a  starlit  night?  As 
the  eye  travels  over  the  panorama  of  stars  and 
planets  spread  out  in  what  seems  to  be  an  infinite 
array,  and  we  realize  that  beyond  are  many  other 
worlds,  other  suns,  other  planets,  whose  distances 
are  measured  in  such  numbers  that  finite  sense 
reels  in  the  attempt  to  grasp  them,  we  -can  but 
be  overwhelmed  by  the  calm,  the  quiet,  the 
majesty,  the  unbroken  order  of  that  vast  multi- 
tude ''moving  in  the  harmony  of  Science"  (Sci- 
ence and  Health,  p.  514). 

The  old,  old  question,  asked  in  every  age  and 
still  unanswered  by  any  human  hypotheses,  must 
again  recur:    What  is  man's  place  in  this  great 


HEAVEN'S   FIRST   LAW  il 

scheme,  or  has  he  no  place  there?  That  many 
who  tortured  themselves  with  such  speculations 
have  found  at  last  the  solution  to  the  problem  is 
due  to  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  the  author  of  ''Science 
and  Health  with  Key  to  the  Scriptures,''  to  whom, 
if  even  for  that  one  blessing  alone,  humanity  owes 
an  immeasurable  debt  of  gratitude. 

As,  through  practical  understanding  and  dem- 
onstration of  Christian  Science,  the  human  con- 
cept of  the  universe  is  lifted  even  slightly  from 
the  material  toward  the  spiritual,  the  thought  of 
Principle,  hitherto  supposed  by  the  majority  of 
people  to  be  a  vague  idea  which  concerned  students 
of  science,  but  with  which  the  ''man  in  the  street" 
had  nothing  whatever  to  do,  takes  a  more  prom- 
inent place,  and  the  general  belief  that  man  is  a 
creature  of  chance  gradually  gives  place  to  the 
conviction  that  man  and  the  universe  are  alike 
governed  by  divine  Principle.  Further,  if  the 
Scriptural  description  of  man  be  true,  he  is  not 
only  the  highest  and  most  complete  manifestation 
of  Principle,  or  the  Father,  sustained  in  the  one 
unchangeable  law  and  order  which  governs  all 
the  ideas  of  infinite  Mind,  but,  as  we  learn  in 
Science  and  Health,  he  includes  "all  right  ideas" 
(p.  475).  If  this  is  the  ultimate  to  which  our 
sense  of  man  and  his  place  in  Mind  has  to  attain, 
it  is  obvious  that  we  have  a  long  journey  before 
us,  and  that  we  shall  do  well  to  see  that  we 
are  at  least  making  a  start  in  the  right  direction. 


12  THE   DIVINE   NATURE 

In  an  illustration  taken  from  the  most  scientific 
of  all  the  arts — architecture — the  f>rophet  Isaiah 
gives  a  very  emphatic  declaration  of  the  scientific 
order  which  prevails  in  the  kingdom  of  God.  In 
the  28th  chapter  the  prophet  describes  the  founda- 
tion stone  which  is  to  be  laid  in  Zion.  In  that 
spiritual  building  there  will  be  no  haste,  nor  con- 
fusion, nor  disorder,  because  judgment  will  be 
laid  ''to  tne  nne,  and  righteousness  to  the  plum-~ 
met." 

It  is  perhaps  a  surprise  to  many  who  have  flat- 
tered themselves  on  their  sense  of  system  and 
method,  to  find  when  they  begin  to  travel  towards 
this  kingdom,  in  the  Hght  of  Christian  Science, 
how  much  diligence,  promptness,  and  perseverance 
is  required  to  keep  their  thoughts  in  order.  Their 
first  effort  has  to  be  that  of  learning  to  think 
right  on  every  subject,  to  think  in  an  orderly  man- 
ner, instead  of  being  swayed  by  impulse  or  senti- 
ment. This  one  discovery  alone  will  perhaps  shov/ 
how  far  the  religious  teachers  of  the  past  have 
been  from  realizing  the  necessity  of  systematic, 
accurate,  and  orderly  thinking  as  a  preparation 
for  the  establishment  of  the  kingdom  of  heaven 
within. 

Truth  demands  orderliness,  and  it  often  re- 
quires many  months  of  alert  work  upon  the  part 
of  the  student  of  Christian  Science  before  he  can 
eradicate  the  habits  of  exaggeration,  prevarica- 
tion, slipshod  thinking,  and  inaccuracy  which  have 


HEAVEN'S   FIRST   LAW  13 

characterized  mortal  thought  and  its  expression. 
Falstaff's  thirty  men  in  buckram  with  whom  he 
fought  for  an  hour  by  Shrewsbury  clock,  stand 
as  a  warning  at  which  every  one  laughs,  but  which 
many  do  not  heed.  And  yet  it  would  be  impos- 
sible to  enumerate  the  discords,  disasters,  and 
failures  which  could  be  traced  to  some  want  of 
order  in  thought  or  word. 

If,  then,  "order  is  Heaven's  first  law,"  it  fol- 
lows that  those  who  are  endeavoring  to  aid  in  the 
establishment  of  the  kingdom  of  heaven  on  earth, 
must  manifest  in  their  thoughts  and  lives  the 
same  orderliness  as  is  manifested  in  that  harmo- 
nious and  immutable  sequence  of  cause  and  effect 
which  even  the  human  concept  has  grasped  in 
its  sense  of  numbers,  of  notes,  and  in  the  ordered 
"rolling  of  the  spheres." 


[From  The  Christian  Science  Sentinel] 

THE   KNOWLEDGE   OF  GOD. 

ADAM   H.  DICKEY. 

WE  read  in  ''Science  and  Health  with  Key 
to  the  Scriptures/'  by  Mary  Baker  Eddy, 
that  Jesus  defined  everlasting  life  as  "a  present 
knowledge  of  his  Father  and  of  himself, — the 
knowledge  of  Love,  Truth,  and  Life"  (p.  410). 
It  follows,  then,  that  what  man  knows  of  God 
constitutes  his  being:  his  knowledge  of  God  is  his 
life;  hence  the  individuality  and  consciousness  of 
man  consist  of  his  knowledge  of  his  creator. 
From  this  premise  we  conclude  that  if  his  con- 
sciousness includes  anything  which  is  unlike  God, 
unlike  Love,  just  to  that  extent  he  is  not  reflect- 
ing or  expressing  the  true  life. 

*'Josh  Billings"  is  credited  with  saying, 
''What's  the  use  of  knowing  a  whole  lot,  if  what 
you  know  isn't  so  ?"  No  use !  To  fill  our  thought 
with  that  which  is  untrue  is  only  to  burden  our- 
selves with  false  beliefs  that  must  eventually  be 
discarded — cast  out.  Sooner  or  later  each  in- 
dividual must  eliminate  from  his  consciousness 
every  thought  that  is  unlike  God,  for  these  beliefs 
serve  only  to  retard  and  hinder  the  development 
in  his  consciousness  of  the  real  mail,  the  true 

H 


THE   KNOWLEDGE   OF   GOD  i5 

image  and  likeness  of  God.  Paul  said:  ''Know 
ye  not,  that  to  whom  ye  yield  yourselves  servants 
to  obey,  his  servants  ye  are  to  whom  ye  obey." 
We  must  stop  admitting  to  ourselves  the  presence, 
power,  and  reality  of  so-called  material  condi- 
tions, and  keep  our  minds  filled  with  the  truth 
about  God  and  man. 

This  knowledge  of  God  is  not  an  intellectual 
accomplishment;  we  can  know  God  only  as  we 
entertain  the  right  idea  of  His  creation  and  love 
our  neighbor  as  ourselves.  Love  is  the  divine 
Principle  of  the  universe,  and  ''the  government 
shall  be  upon  His  shoulder.''  Only  as  Love  is 
at  work  in  our  consciousness,  only  as  we  make 
it  the  dominating  influence  of  our  thoughts  and 
acts,  are  we  Christian  Scientists. 


[From  The  Christian  Science  Journal] 

THE   ONLY   BEGOTTEN   SON. 

^RNE:sT  C.   MOSES. 

And  thou  shalt  say  unto  Pharaoh,  Thus  saith  the  Lord, 
Israel  is  my  son,  even  my  firstborn. — Exodus,  4 :  22. 

IN  these  days  of  rapidly-increasing  Biblical 
research,  many  students  of  the  sacred  writ- 
ings are  misled  in  their  attempts  to  ascertain  man's 
true  status  in  the  universe,  through  a  general  mis- 
understanding of  the  teachings  of  Jesus  respect- 
ing his  relation  to  the  Father — to  "your  Father'' 
and  ''our  Father,"  as  he  often  chose  to  express 
his  genuinely  universal  concept  of  God's  relation 
to  man. 

Scholastic  interpretations  of  the  Scriptures  seem 
to  darken  and  obscure  the  true  significance  of  the 
statements  found  in  John's  Gospel  and  First 
Epistle,  which  refer  to  Christ  Jesus  as  the  "only 
begotten  Son."  According  to  traditional  inter- 
pretation Jesus  is  represented  as  having  been  the 
singular  and  only  son  ever  begotten  of  God, 
thereby  ascribing  to  Deity  the  mortal  qualities 
of  discrimination  and  limitation.  Students  of 
our  text-book,  who  have  been  enabled  to  demon- 
strate some  understanding  of  divine  Principle, 
have    learned  that  the  use  of  the  word  "only"  in 

16 


THE   ONLY   BEGOTTEN    SON  17 

connection  with  "begotten  Son"  is  intended  to 
signify  that  Christ  is  the  ''spiritual  idea  of  son- 
ship"  (Science  and  Health,  p.  331),  the  perfect 
expression  of  Mind,  of  eternal  infinite  Principle ; 
that  Christ  represents  the  true  ideal  of  man,  or 
son,  begotten  by  the  Father ;  that  this  true  son  is 
''only  begotten"  in  the  sense  that  no  other  kind 
of  son  was  ever  created  or  revealed  by  God. 

In  the  beautiful  "Christmas  Sermon"  in  "Mis- 
cellaneous Writings,"  Mrs.  Eddy  states  that  the 
understanding  of  the  Christ,  the  spiritual  idea  in 
Christian  Science,  will  ultimately  "reveal  man 
collectively,  as  individually,  to  be  the  Son  of  God" 
(p.  164).  This  scientific  statement  of  the  truth 
which  the  clear  spiritual  perception  of  our  revered 
Leader  has  enabled  her  to  advance  and  maintain, 
clearly  corroborates  the  teachings  of  Jesus,  who 
knew  his  own  status  in  Truth,  and  who  also  knew 
that  all  the  children  of  God  are  one  in  Christ,  as 
attested  by  his  words:  "That  they  all  may  be 
one ;  as  thou.  Father,  art  in  me,  ...  I  in  them, 
and  thou  in  me,  that  they  may  be  made  perfect  in 
one."  Paul  very  accurately  comprehended  the 
Master's  declarations  of  the  oneness  of  God's 
ofifspring,  when  he  said  that  in  Christ  "there  is 
neither  male  nor  female :  for  ye  are  all  one  in 
Christ  Jesus." 

The  command  of  Jesus  to  his  students,  to  call 
no  man  by  the  name  of  "father,"  and  his  impera- 
tive charge  that  they  should  be  perfect,  even  as 


i8  THE   DIVINE   NATURE 

their  Father  in  heaven  is  perfect,  were  unequivocal 
announcements  not  only  of  man's  deific  origin  and 
relation  to  God,  but  also  of  the  perfectibility  of 
man  as  the  spiritual  expression  of  perfect  Mind 
or  Principle.  His  unerring  spiritual  perception 
enabled  him  to  declare  in  positive  terms  a  sonship 
for  man  which  thrust  aside  all  theories  of  material 
origin,  with  their  claims  of  physical  generation 
and  kinship,  and  to  announce  the  true  generic 
status  of  man  and  woman  as  the  offspring  of  God, 
''belonging  to  no  lesser  parent''  (Science  and 
Health,  p.  529). 

Jesus  taught  that  all  who  are  ''born  of  the 
Spirit"  are  equally  the  sons  and  daughters  of  God, 
having  equal  rights  and  power,  having  access  to 
the  Father,  equally  begotten,  as  attested  by  his 
imperishable  statement  of  man's  divine  right  to 
manifest  good,  thereby  reflecting  the  same  Prin- 
ciple which  he  manifested, — "Verily,  verily  I  say 
unto  you,  He  that  belie veth  on  me,  the  works 
that  I  do  shall  he  do  also;  and  greater  works 
than  these  shall  he  do;  because  I  go  unto  my 
Father."  The  Scriptures  are,  therefore,  authority 
for  his  proclamation  of  man's  power  to  do  the 
works  which  he  accomplished  by  an  understand- 
ing of  the  Principle  and  spiritual  idea  which  he 
revealed. 

We  find  no  record  of  any  statements  made  by 
Jesus  in  which  he  declared  that  he  was  the  "only 
begotten   Son"   of   God.      On   the   contrary,   he 


THE   ONLY   BEGOTTEN    SON  19 

taught  that  the  Christ  which  he  manifested  to 
humanity  as  ''the  way,  the  truth,  and  the  Hfe,"  was 
the  type  and  model  for  teaching  and  practice 
which  would  enable  all  men  to  demonstrate  and 
know  the  truth  which  destroys  the  illusions  of 
mortality.  There  is  no  other  name  given  among 
men  whereby  we  can  be  saved  from  the  errors  of 
material  sense. 

In  the  six  different  narratives  found  in  the  three 
Gospels  of  the  exaltations  of  Jesus, — first  when 
he  was  baptized  by  John  the  Baptist,  and  after- 
ward at  his  transfiguration,  when  he  led  Peter, 
James,  and  John  into  the  higher  altitudes  of  spir- 
itual consciousness, — it  is  clearly  shown  that  the 
irradiance  of  his  own  spiritualized  thought 
unveiled  to  them  the  truth  concerning  his  relation 
with  the  Father.  The  Gospel  writers  afterwards 
recorded  the  realization  thus  imparted  to  the 
disciples  as  a  divine  message,  in  which  all  the 
narrators  agree  as  to  the  import  of  the  revelation : 
''This  is,"  or  "Thou  art  my  beloved  Son;''  thereby 
giving  consonant  testimony  as  to  the  substance  of 
the  messages  or  revelations.  It  was  not  "my  only 
begotten  son,"  nor  "my  only  son,"  but  "my 
beloved  Son:  hear  him;"  and  "my  beloved  Son, 
in  whom  I  am  well  pleased." 

Some  translators  and  commentators  accredit 
the  statements  contained  in  John  3 :  16-21,  to 
Jesus.  Others  maintain,  with  more  probability, 
that  these  words  are  a  commentary  by  the  evangel- 


20  THE   DIVINE   NATURE 

ist  Upon  the  preceding  statements  of  the  Master. 
But  in  either  case  the  two  references  to  ''the  only- 
begotten  Son"  contained  in  this  section,  as  seen 
in  the  Hght  of  Christian  Science,  stand  as  further 
evidence  of  the  fact  that  the  Christ  which  was 
revealed  to  human  consciousness  through  the  man 
Jesus,  was  the  representative  ideal  of  the  only 
offspring  of  the  Father,  and  that  man  in  Science 
is  the  likeness  of  the  Father, — is  spiritual  and 
perfect.  The  earnest  student  in  Christian  Science 
knows  that  the  real  man  is  not,  never  was,  and 
never  can  be,  mortal.  (See  Science  and  Health, 
p.  475.) 

To  say  that  the  definitions  of  the  real  man 
which  are  given  in  the  Christian  Science  text- 
book are  incorrect  because  they  are  not  generally 
understood,  would  be  tantamount  to  stating 
that  the  words  of  the  Master  on  this  subject 
are  likewise  incorrect,  for  Mrs.  Eddy's  state- 
ments of  the  nature  of  the  true  man  are  in 
perfect  consonance  with  the  assertions  of  all 
the  New  Testament  writers  concerning  man 
and  his  relation  to  God.  When  Jesus  declared 
that  the  flesh  profits  nothing;  when  Paul  stated 
that  the  children  of  the  flesh  are  not  the  children 
of  God;  when  John  declared  that  the  material 
world  and  its  children  (expressed  by  "the  lust 
of  the  flesh,  .  .  .  and  the  pride  of  life'')  are  not 
of  the  Father,  they  placed  an  uncompromising 
denial  upon  the  lie  which  would  forever  shackle 


THE   ONLY   BEGOTTEN    SON  21 

man  and  woman  to  mortality,  and  thus  rob  them 
of  man's  spiritual  birthright  as  the  only  begotten 
Son  of  Spirit,  God,  These  denials  of  the  false 
claims  of  material  sense  were  accompanied  with 
positive  affirmations  of  that  true  sonship  which 
appears  in  Christ  when  we  know  "no  man  after 
the  flesh."  When  we  deny  the  false  sense  of 
self,  take  up  our  cross  and  follow  the  Christ,  the 
path  must  ever  lead  to  that  supreme  moment 
wherein  we  awake  to  note  the  unbroken  con- 
tinuity of  Life  at-one  with  its  only  begotten 
spiritual  idea. 

The  statements  in  the  New  Testament  as  to 
God's  "own  Son"  are  often  incorrectly  taken  to 
refer  to  God's  only  Son,  in  a  human  sense  of 
singularity.  This  erroneous  usage  seems  to  arise 
from  an  intermixture  of  terms  caused  by  phonetic 
similarities  and  by  imperfect  familiarity  with 
wholly  different  passages  which  refer  to  "own 
son"  and  "only  begotten  son."  This  error  also 
proceeds  from  careless  inference  and  a  lack  of 
precision  in  making  quotations.  Its  common 
acceptance  and  circulation  attest  the  blindness  of 
human  belief  in  accepting  any  theory  without 
asking  if  its  premises  conform  to  the  standards 
of  Truth. 

When  John  characterized  the  Christ,  in  the  first 
chapter  of  his  Gospel,  as  the  "Word"  made  flesh, 
and  referred  to  his  glory  as  "the  only  begotten 
of  the  Father,  full  of  grace  and  truth,"  he  cer- 


22  THE   DIVINE   NATURE 

tainly  did  not  refer  to  an  only  son  in  a  humanly 
unique  sense.  Had  he  ascribed  this  exclusive 
relation  to  Jesus  he  would  never  have  declared 
in  his  First  Epistle  that  immortal  fact  which  is 
read  and  increasingly  realized  in  our  Sunday 
services,  ''Now  are  we  the  sons  of  God." 

The  student  of  the  Bible  may  search  the  Scrip- 
tural writings  from  Genesis  to  Revelation,  and 
according  to  Young's  analysis  he  will  find  the 
term  ''only  son"  used  but  three  times, — once  in 
Genesis,  in  Jeremiah,  and  in  Zechariah,  and  then 
solely  in  connection  with  human  ties,  but  never 
in  connection  with  the  Christ,  or  Jesus. 

The  elucidation  and  understanding  of  these 
scientific  facts  by  no  means  detract  from  the 
might,  beauty,  and  majesty  of  the  life  and  works 
of  Christ  Jesus.  On  the  contrary,  the  growing 
comprehension  of  the  divine  Science  which  his 
teachings  and  demonstrations  first  brought  to 
light,  enhances  our  love  and  admiration  for  the 
one  of  whom  our  revered  Leader  says,  "Jesus 
was  the  highest  human  concept  of  the  perfect 
man.  He  was  inseparable  from  Christ,  the 
Messiah, — the  divine  idea  of  God  outside  the 
flesh"  (Science  and  Health,  p.  482).  Only  by 
demonstration  of  this  true  ideal  of  man  are  we 
enabled  to  follow  the  Master  in  an  unwavering 
acceptance  of  the  truth  which  clears  our  con- 
sciousness of  the  false  clairns  of  error,  elevating 
it  into  its  native  realization  of  the  same  healing 


THE   ONLY   BEGOTTEN    SON  23 

Love  which  unceasingly  calls  the  children  of 
Israel  up  out  of  Egyptian  darkness  into  the  prom- 
ised land  or  realm  of  Life,  light,  and  harmony. 
This  whole  subject  will  be  better  understood 
if  we  consider  the  statement  in  the  first  chapter 
of  Hebrews,  'When  he  bringeth  in  the  first- 
begotten  into  the  world,  he  saith,  And  let  all  the 
angels  of  God  worship  him;''  also  John's  refer- 
ence, in  the  first  chapter  of  Revelation  to  Christ 
Jesus,  as  ''the  first  begotten  of  the  dead."  To 
these  we  may  link  Paul's  well-known  statement 
concerning  the  Son,  "that  he  might  be  the  first- 
born among  many  brethren."  The  essential 
truth  herein  taught  will  be  better  understood  as 
others  are  "begotten  of  [or  from]  the  dead." 
Then  we  shall  know,  as  did  the  writer  of  the 
epistle  to  the  Hebrews,  that  "both  he  that  sancti- 
fieth  and  they  who  are  sanctified  are  all  of  one: 
for  which  cause  he  is  not  ashamed  to  call  them 
brethren." 


[From  The  Christian  Science  Sentinel.^ 

MAN  AND  BODY. 

WII.I.ARD   S.    MATTOX. 

THERE  are  many  serious  misconceptions  of 
Christian  Science,  and  among  them  must 
be  enumerated  the  supposition  that  it  teaches  that 
we  have  no  body.  Many  critics  have  asserted 
this,  and  many  beginners  have  worried  over  it 
until  they  saw  the  truth  and  reahzed  that  Chris- 
tian Science  teaches  no  such  thing.  Christian 
Science  is  not  a  doctrine  of  annihilation.  It  does 
not  wipe  out  anything  that  really  exists.  It 
could  not  if  it  tried,  but  it  does  not  even  try. 
Divine  metaphysics  does  not  deprive  a  man  of 
aught  that  belongs  to  his  real  being.  On  the 
contrary,  our  text-book  says  "consciousness  con- 
structs a  better  body  when  faith  in  matter  has 
been  conquered"  (Science  and  Health,  p.  425). 
It  should  be  understood,  however,  that  body  and 
matter  are  not  identical,  synonymous,  or  sugges- 
tive, the  one  of  the  other. 

Whatever  of  denial  enters  into  the  statements 
of  Christian  Science  comes  there  to  destroy  a 
false  belief.  When  the  false  belief  disappears 
there  is  nothing  left  to  deny.  Truth  is  conscious 
only  of  what  is  true.     Truth's  very  presence  and 

24 


MAN   AND   BODY  25 

all-efficiency  is  the  only  denial  of  error  which  it 
is  possible  or  necessary  for  Truth  to  make.  We 
are  accustomed  to  associate  a  vigorous  denial  of 
error  with  our  affirmations  of  the  concord  of  be- 
ing, but  this  association  arises  only  because  we 
still  seem  to  be  conscious  of  something  which 
needs  to  be  denied. 

It  may  be  said,  then,  that  Christian  Science 
is  emphatically  a  religion  of  affirmation.  It 
affirms  that  all  good  is,  here  and  now.  It 
affirms  the  truth  about  God,  man,  and  the  uni- 
verse, about  Mind  and  body,  about  law  and  gov- 
ernment. It  declares  that  whatever  is  real  about 
our  being,  God  made,  and  that  therefore  it  must 
be  good,  and  that  what  God  did  not  make  is 
not  real  and  has  no  actual  existence.  Man's  in- 
dividuality or  identity  is  his  true  being,  and  it 
would  be  impossible  to  rob  him  of  his  God-given 
individuality  and  identity.  Christian  Science  has 
not  come  to  destroy  but  to  fulfil. 

A  right  understanding  of  what  constitutes 
man's  being  involves  a  comprehension  of 
substance.  Material  sense  accepts  only  its  own 
concept  of  substance;  that  is,  matter.  It  cannot 
possibly  conceive  of  an  idea  as  substantial.  This 
would  be  intangible,  inconceivable,  even  absurd, 
to  material  sense.  So,  then,  whenever  a  state- 
ment is  made  concerning  man's  being,  material 
sense  immediately  outlines  matter,  thinks  of 
pounds    avoirdupois,    and    from    this   erroneous 


26  THE  DIVINE  NATURE 

Standpoint  seeks  to  quarrel  with  a  statement  which 
was  never  meant  to  embrace  or  designate  matter. 

The  fundamental  statement  of  Christian  Sci- 
ence includes  the  declaration  that  infinite  Mind  is. 
The  office  or  function  of  Mind  is  to  think,  to  be 
mentally  active.  A  mind  which  does  not  think, 
which  is  not  active,  which  is  dormant,  or  stagnant, 
is  no  mind.  That  which  characterizes  Mind  is  its 
capacity  to  think.  We  speak  of  Mind,  and 
immediately  we  think  of  Mind's  activities,  of 
consciousness.  We  may  say,  then,  that  infinite 
Mind  must  express  itself ;  and  that  its  expression 
or  embodiment  consists  of  its  ideas,  which  are 
necessarily  like  itself.  (Science  and  Health,  pp. 
302,  477).  This  teaching  as  to  Mind  and  its  mani- 
festation is  sustained  by  the  spiritual  account  of 
creation,  as  given  in  the  first  chapter  of  Genesis. 
"And  God  said.  Let  us  make  man  in  our  image, 
after  our  likeness.''  If  mortal  man,  with  a  dis- 
eased and  limited  matter  body,  is  this  image 
and  likeness,  then  God  as  his  originator  must 
bear  the  general  contour  and  similitude  of  the 
matter  body,  a  thought  too  shocking  to  admit  for 
a  moment. 

Organization  and  matter  go  hand  in  hand. 
When  we  speak  of  one,  the  other  is  always  sug- 
gested to  our  thought.  We  do  not  think  of  Spirit 
as  organized,  or  outlined,  because  organization 
means  limitation,  and  the  basic  statement  of 
Christian  Science  is  that  Spirit,  Mind,  God,  is 


MAN   AND   BODY  27 

infinite;  that  is  to  say,  without  limitation  or  or- 
ganization. The  material  body,  then,  with  its 
elaborate  organization,  can  give  us  no  correct  idea 
of  the  reflection  of  infinite  Spirit.  The  material 
body  is  a  false  sense  of  being,  a  material  or  per- 
verted view  of  a  spiritual  reality.  When  this 
view  is  changed,  the  truth  about  man  will  be 
apparent.  Mortals  believe  in  a  world  made  up 
of  organized  matter,  peopled  with  personalities. 
Christian  Science  reveals  a  world  of  spiritual  sub- 
stance, peopled  with  spiritual  ideas.  When  we 
exchange  "personality''  for  ''individuality,"  we 
reach  a  scientific  basis,  and  begin  to  get  a  glimpse 
of  man.  Our  Leader  says,  "To  scientifically 
impersonalize  the  material  sense  of  existence — 
rather  than  cling  to  personality — is  the  lesson  of 
today"  (Miscellaneous  Writings,  p.  310).  Paul 
says  practically  the  same  thing  when  he  pleads 
with  us,  "Be  ye  transformed  by  the  renewing 
of  your  mind." 

The  hope  of  immortality,  which  is  latent  in  all 
consciousness,  would  be  unhappily  placed  if  it  had 
no  surer  foundation  than  matter,  but  there  is 
much  consolation  and  everlasting  hope  in  the 
reasonable  and  demonstrable  teaching  of  Christian 
Science  with  respect  to  man's  individuality  and 
immortality.  The  belief  that  matter  constitutes 
our  selfhood,  that  material  organization  is  neces- 
sary to  carry  on  the  functions  of  being,  that  man 
is  corporeal  and  limited,  is  responsible  for  human 


2S  THE  DIVINE  NATURE 

discord  and  bodily  suffering.  Christian  Science 
teaches  a  simplicity  of  existence  and  an  integrity 
of  individual  being  which  rest  upon  the  declara- 
tion that  man  cannot  be  separated  from  God,  for 
*'in  Him  we  live,  and  move,  and  have  our  being/' 


[From  The  Christian  Science  Sentinel.'] 

UNITY  OF  ACTION. 

WII.I.IAM  D.   MC  CRACKAN,  M.A. 

PETER  was  by  occupation  a  humble  fisher- 
man, while  Paul  was  a  man  of  learning,  of 
the  proud  sect  of  the  Pharisees;  yet  these  two 
men,  so  dissimilar  in  education  and  association 
with  the  world,  learned  to  display  unity  of  action 
of  the  highest  and  noblest  type  in  healing  the 
sick  and  sinning.  The  understanding  of  the  one 
God  whom  they  worshiped  enabled  Peter  to  heal 
the  lame  man  at  the  gate  of  the  temple  called 
Beautiful,  and  to  say  to  the  noble  woman  whom 
they  called  dead,  "Tabitha,  arise."  Through  this 
same  understanding  Paul,  when  shipwrecked  on 
the  island  of  Melita  (modern  Malta),  was  able 
to  shake  off  the  viper  which  had  fastened  itself 
upon  his  hand  and  to  remain  unharmed ;  likewise, 
to  heal  the  sick  father  of  the  chief  man  of  the 
island. 

It  is  recorded  that  when  Jesus  called  upon 
Peter  to  follow  him,  he  straightway  left  his  nets 
and  became  a  close  companion  of  the  Galilean 
Prophet ;  whereas  Paul  may  not  have  known  the 
great  Teacher  personally,  and  at  one  time  con- 
sidered it  his  duty  to  persecute  and  slay  the  fol- 
29 


30  THE   DIVINE   NATURE 

lowers  of  Jesus.  Yet  in  Science  th^se  two  men — 
the  fisherman  and  the  scholar — exhibited  true 
unity  of  action,  because  they  learned  to  reflect 
the  healing  power  of  Truth  to  suffering  and  sin- 
ning mankind.  Furthermore,  it  is  helpful  to 
notice  that  although  Paul  had  "made  havoc  of 
the  church,''  yet  this  atrocious  conduct  was  not 
remembered  against  him  for  evil  by  the  members 
of  the  struggling  church  after  he  had  once  taken 
his  stand  in  behalf  of  Truth.  We  read  that  there 
was  some  natural  distrust  of  him  at  first,  when 
he  suddenly  joined  the  ranks  of  his  former 
victims,  but  no  expression  of  hate  or  revenge  is 
recorded. 

The  understanding  of  the  only  true  God  brings 
with  it  a  complete  obliteration  of  past  injuries, 
injustices,  oppressions,  and  grudges, — a  true  for- 
giveness, a  perpetual  reconciliation.  As  one  ac- 
quires the  consciousness  of  good  and  holds  fast 
to  it  he  loses  the  consciousness  of  evils  which 
once  seemed  hard  to  bear.  A  hush  falls  upon 
those  who  enter  into  the  presence  of  God,  stilling 
the  tumult  and  strife  of  personal  grievance  and 
producing  a  calm  wherein  only  the  "still  small 
voice"  of  divine  Love  can  be  heard.  Mrs.  Eddy 
states,  "The  substance  of  all  devotion  is  the 
reflection  and  demonstration  of  divine  Love,  heal- 
ing sickness  and  destroying  sin''  (Science  and 
Health,  p.  241).  This  is  the  devotion  which  is 
capable  of  bringing  about  unity  of  action  among 


UNITY   OF   ACTION  31 

persons  who  display  differing  characteristics  due  , 
to  temperament,  education,  environment,  and  ex- 
perience. This  devotion  suppHes  the  central 
motive  governing  all  the  members  of  a  Christianly 
scientific  organization.  To  heal,  using  the  word 
in  its  broadest  sense,  is  to  be  about  our  Father's 
business. 

All  the  manifold  activities  of  The  Mother 
Church  and  its  branches  center  in  the  healing 
motive.  The  several  ways  and  means  instituted 
for  placing  the  understanding  of  Christian 
Science  within  the  reach  of  those  who  are  ready 
for  its  acceptance,  are  just  so  many  avenues  for 
healing.  First  and  foremost,  the  text-book  of. 
Christian  Science,  and  our  Leader's  other  writ- 
ings, elucidating  the  Scriptures,  fulfil  this  glorious 
mission.  Then  all  the  other  activities  represented 
by  class  teaching,  by  our  church  services  and 
testimonial  meetings,  by  the  reading-rooms,  the 
Christian  Science  periodicals,  the  committees  on 
publication,  the  lectures,  etc., — all  in  their  several 
ways  are  designed  to  heal.  And  how  wonderfully 
these  ways  are  meeting  and  mastering  specific 
phases  of  ignorance  and  sin! 

When  this  central  motive,  this  true  devotion, 
IS  kept  pure  and  unsullied,  the  foundation  is  laid 
and  kept  intact  for  a  Christian  Science  society 
or  church.  Its  members,  though  representing 
types  as  dissimilar  as  Peter  and  Paul,  can  then 
cooperate  under  the  one  Mind,  and  thus  do  their 


32  THE   DIVINE   NATURE 

part  in  evangelizing  the  world.  What  a  glorious 
prospect  is  even  now  unfolding  itself  before  the 
whole  of  Christendom,  when  men  and  women 
of  every  name  and  nature  shall  find  their  joy  in 
this  genuine  devotion,  this  unity  of  action, — when 
every  theologian  shall  voluntarily  surrender  the 
traditions  of  scholastic  theology  in  order  to  be- 
come as  a  little  child,  when  every  physician  shall 
relinquish  his  trust  in  the  action  and  reaction 
of  drugs  to  heal,  because  he  has  discovered  an  un- 
failing remedy  for  all  ills  in  the  divine  Mind, 
and  when  the  natural  scientists,  versed  in  the 
seeming  laws  of  matter,  shall  rejoice  that  the 
beneficent  law  of  God  is  above  all;  when  every 
man  of  business  shall  prosper  because  he  prefers 
the  kingdom  of  God  and  His  righteousness  to 
material  wealth;  when  every  politician  shall  be 
willing  to  sacrifice  his  power  of  personal  control 
because  he  esteems  more  highly  the  rights  of 
others;  when  the  school-teacher,  the  actor,  the 
painter,  the  sculptor,  the  athlete,  each  in  his  way, 
shall  heal  by  overcoming  limitations  and  setting 
up  the  standard  of  perfection. 

This  healing  unity  of  action  has  already  begun 
its  work.  It  is  circling  the  earth;  and  as  it 
advances  it  brushes  aside  into  deserved  oblivion 
all  the  petty  misunderstandings,  selfish  motives, 
eccentric  ambitions,  subterfuges,  plots,  and  plans 
which  have  heretofore  divided  men  into  hostile 
factions  by  separating  them  from  God. 


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